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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks #1 – Manipulation Tips

Solid Edge Tips & Tricks #1 – Manipulation Tips

My good friend and colleague Russell Brook has been providing tips and tricks to the Solid Edge community for years. Russ is a Solid Edge product marketing manager and also the author of On the Edge,…

PLM Connection 2009 Podcast – Jon Jarrett

PLM Connection 2009 Podcast – Jon Jarrett

  Today’s podcast features PLM World Chair Jon Jarrett, senior  manager of Engineering Systems at ATK, the world’s top producer of solid rocket propulsion systems. Jon has been …

Time to Make The CAD Software

Time to Make The CAD Software

Do any of you remember the old commercials, “Time to make the donuts”? One early morning I twittered “Time to make the CAD software” and it seemed like it might be a good topic. Most companies have…

No Fooling Around With NX Nastran

No Fooling Around With NX Nastran

There were some funny April Fool’s jokes this week. But it was actually a serious day here. It wasn’t the April Fool’s worm. But we did find out that our NX Nastran customers couldn’t run the program…

The Three-Pronged Fork in the Road

The Three-Pronged Fork in the Road

A couple weeks back, I participated as a panelist on a Design News webcast – “A Fork in the Road in 3-D CAD Modeling” with Blake Courter of SpaceClaim and Paul Hamilton of PTC. It was an interesting …

Are Digital Humans Cool?

Are Digital Humans Cool?

… look at this Cool, isn’t it? We used NX in combination with our digital human model called Jack to create this image. Other than the cool factor, these digital humans play a key role…

NX Synchronous CAE – Part 4 – What-if Analysis

NX Synchronous CAE – Part 4 – What-if Analysis

NX Design Freedom powered by Synchronous Technology makes what-if studies very easy.  In Part 4 of our series, we show how CAE users can delete, modify, and move features without needing an in-d…

NX Synchronous CAE – Part 3 – CFD

NX Synchronous CAE – Part 3 – CFD

This is part 3 in the series “NX Synchronous CAE”.  In this post, I would like to discuss how Synchronous Technology can be useful in CFD (computational fluid dynamics) Analysts face a unique…

Make Your Way to Music City for PLM Connection

Make Your Way to Music City for PLM Connection

In 12 weeks and counting, quite a few of us will be in Nashville, Tenn., for the annual Siemens PLM Connection event. It’s the largest gathering of our customers around the globe. If you use any …